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• I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.

  Don McLean

  Mean, World, Given

  "'American Pie' Doesn't Belong To Saratoga Springs". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 1, 2011.

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• I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different.

  Frank Miller

  New York, Thinking, Views

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• So community colleges are accessible, they're available, they're affordable, and their curriculums don't get stuck. In other words, if there's a need for a certain kind of worker, I presume your curriculums evolved over time.

  George W. Bush

  College, Community, Needs

  President's Remarks at Ask President Bush Event, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. August 10, 2004.

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• Someone told me something that stuck with me: "You have to envision your life, and then go backwards." I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

  Bruno Mars

  Trying, Needs, Motto

  "Bruno Mars heads for the stars with new album". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2010.

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• I just loved being in the gym. It was tough at times. Sometimes I wanted to quit, but I'm glad I stuck with it.

  Kevin Durant

  Tough, Quitting, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind.

  Sonny Rollins

  Mind, Charlie

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• A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

  Laurel Lea

  Pain, Moving, Heart

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• Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.

  Randy Owen

  Country, Names, Alabama

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• My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mother, Giving, Beggar

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• As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck.

  Iain Sinclair

  Mean, Demand, Want

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• I didn't get my hair styled today. I actually stuck my hand in a socket and this is the way it turned out.

  Clinton Portis

  Hair, Hands, Today

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• Part of me sees myself as talented, and the other part sees me as strange. Ideas get stuck in your head and nothing changes them. Not even fame.

  Mika

  Ideas, Strange, Things Change

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.

  Willow Smith

  Want, Pairs, Feels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of flour and water... I don't think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky... but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Thinking, Tchaikovsky, Water

  "Why Don't You Run Upstairs and Write a Nice Gershwin Tune?". The Atlantic Monthly, April 1955.

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• Way over on the railroad,
  Tomorrow all the tipping trucks will unload together,
  Every scrapbook stuck with glue,
  And I'll stand beside you,
  Beside you, child.

  Van Morrison

  Children, Together, Glue

  "Song: 'Beside You' ('Astral Weeks')". 1968.

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• For years, I was stuck behind a keyboard rig. When I started playing guitar onstage, it was a bit of a release - not to be stuck in one spot the whole night. It's really enjoyable having the freedom to move around. You just have to remember to end up somewhere near a microphone.

  Martin Gore

  Moving, Night, Guitar

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• Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is left with his foot stuck in the mud from all of the Republicans with the way he's treated. We have moved in the right direction, and there have been improvements, but we still have a long ways to go in the country.

  Hank Aaron

  Country, Feet, Long

  "40 years later, Hank Aaron's grace a beauty to behold". www.usatoday.com. April 7, 2014.

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• Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Fall, Love Is, Illogical

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• I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room encouraged by one in-law to visit another little birdlike women without any nest eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves?

  Tennessee Williams

  Brother, Husband, Humility

  Tennessee Williams (1996). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.12, Heinemann

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• I didn't have much, but I was always happy to share what I did have. It seemed like every African that came to New York City would show up at my apartment door at dinnertime, and I couldn't turn them away. I wasn't much older than any of them, but they started calling me 'Mama Africa' and the name stuck.

  Miriam Makeba

  New York, Doors, Cities

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• An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  War, Power, Years

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• In the days of witchcraft it used to be believed that if one person secretly made a waxen image of another and stuck pins into the image, its counterpart would suffer tortures, and that if the image was melted the person would die. This superstition is almost realized in the relation between the private self and its social reflection. They seem to separate but are darkly united, and what is done to the one is done to the other.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Reflection, Self, Suffering

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.247, Transaction Publishers

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• The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal views. Classic art works like Bizet's Carmen tell us more about the irrationality of love, jealousy and revenge than do all the pat formulas of the counseling industry.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Sex, Revenge

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• The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn't go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light - all this silly talk about line, colour and form - because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of.

  Willem de Kooning

  Silly, Light, Idols

  Willem De Kooning, Gagosian Gallery (2004). “De Kooning: a centennial exhibition”

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• And we would play together, like fine musicians should, And it would sound like music, and the music would sound good. But in real life I'm stuck with that same old formula, me and my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

  Harry Chapin

  Real, Play, Symphony

  Song: Six String Orchestra, 1974

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